Sourced records of Chinese AI deployments across the Global South and the Middle East

Huawei launched its first localised cloud service in Türkiye at the Huawei Türkiye Cloud Summit in Istanbul on 12 July 2023, releasing 78 cloud services covering data, AI and cloud-native workloads plus a disaster-recovery site in Ankara, with the deputy minister of Transport and Infrastructure attending. In its October 2024 Türkiye summit Huawei Cloud said it was the country's first and only local public-cloud provider, had launched over 110 cloud services, grown Turkish business twelve-fold in a year and served more than 360 local customers in banking, retail, e-commerce and media, and announced a US$6 million, three-year 'Cloud Acceleration Program for Digital Transformation' for Turkish startups.

United Imaging's uMR Jupiter 5T whole-body ultra-high-field 5T MRI was integrated at Sezin Medical Imaging (Istanbul), described as a regional benchmark; uAI reconstruction is included.

Alibaba owns ~70% of Turkish e-commerce platform Trendyol (initial stake 2018; a further US$2B pledged in 2023). In Oct 2024 Trendyol launched its first proprietary LLM — built on Alibaba's infrastructure — for real-time cross-border seller-buyer translation, while scaling in the Gulf (Saudi ~80% of Gulf orders; >US$1B Gulf GMV in 2024).